Religion: Nazi Marriage Service

Devout Nazis can be married in
a pagan marriage ceremony. Its details were described in London last
week. Solemn with Wagnerian overtones, it is designed for "all who have
freed themselves from Christianity and wish to celebrate their marriage
as true Germans without the blessing of a priest. The man or woman
whose passion is at its height regards the final union ... as a
festival."

The service is held in a hall decorated with "a great many flowers and
fir branches," and with a charcoal brazier at one end. Four girl
attendants hold torches, four boys are trumpeters. Costume:...